discussion

In what ways did the New Deal impact women, African Americans, and Native Americans?

How did the New Deal change American Politics?

Explain the criticism from both the left and the right of the New Deal

INTERWAR FOREIGN POLICY

Washington Naval Conference of 1921

Meeting in which the US called for an end to navel arms race.

Led to an agreement in which quotas were set.

For every 5 tons of US and British ships, the Japanese would get 3 and France and Italy 1.75.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1928.

Brainchild of French and US diplomats.

Outlawed war as an instrument of foreign policy.

62 nations signed.

The Good Neighbor Policy US institutes a new policy towards Latin

America.

In some ways an abandonment of the Roosevelt Corollary

Started with Hoover

But most associated with FDR.

Economic persuasion replaces military.

FDR’s Bombshell

At the World Economic Conference in London (1933).

Meeting about stabilizing world currencies and resolving the problem of WWI debts.

FDR took the US of the gold standard.